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Four young Cormorants wait for food
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Image details:  
Image Description: Four young Cormorants wait for food
Image notes: Begging food from Bobby
Species in Image: Cormorant
Date:
Area: Ramna Stacks
Old Haa Image Reference Number: btc00400

General details:  
Common Name Cormorant
Latin Name Phalacrocorax carbo
Shetland Name Muckle Scarf (Adult), Brongi (Immature)
Latin Group Name Pelecaniformes
Latin Family Name Phalacrocoracidae
Common Family Name Cormorants
Description Cormorants favour exposed, difficult to access places to breed. Ramna Stacks at the mouth of Yell Sound is one of the most difficult, in spite of this, all colonies have been counted and breeding numbers seem to be holding up quite well.
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